Evaluating music information retrieval systems is acknowledged to be a difficult problem. We have created a database and a software testbed for the systematic evaluation of various query-by-humming (QBH) search systems. ...

We have investigated the performance of a hidden Markov model based QBH retrieval system on a large musical database. The database is synthetic, generated from statistics gleaned from our (smaller) database of musical ...

Query-by-humming systems attempt to address the needs of the non-expert user, for whom the most natural query format -- for the purposes of finding a tune, hook or melody of unknown providence -- is to sing it. While human ...